I did not read, in that verse...
"Because God made it Holy for mankind and commands us to keep it as a Holy day".
You did not read that either 3rdAngel.
Could we just deal with scriptures and let the scriptures do the talking.
Let the Bible answer. Don't you think that will give us the correct answer?
I don't remember interpreting anything. What did I interpret... Could you point that out please?
When God rested on the seventh day, and made that day holy, it was no a 24 hour day, was it?
God did not require the Egyptians, nor the Canaanites... nor any other nation to keep the Sabbath day holy.
Did you notice that none of those scriptures you quoted actually said that God commanded people to keep a Sabbath day, because he rested on that day?
It was only Israel. He told them why they should keep Sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 5:1-3
Moses then summoned all Israel and said to them: “
Hear, O Israel, the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am announcing to you today, and you must learn them and carefully observe them. Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. It was not with our forefathers that Jehovah made this covenant, but with us, all of us alive here today.
He did not tell us 3rdAngel. You are not of the nation of Israel, and even if you were, that would not matter, right, because God's people in the new covenant, with the mediator, Christ Jesus, are neither Jew nor Gentile.
The Gentile would not even be a part of the covenant, if the covenant with the Jews was still binding.
I was hoping we could consider the scripture reasonably, and with a cool head.
You just did not like the answer because you are seeking to justify your sin in breaking Gods 4th commandment.
Can we look at this with a cool head.
Or, maybe you are cool, and I am exaggerating.
You asked a question.
You do not believe that all of Gods 10 commandments are now abolished do you?
Why the ten? What about the rest? The Israelites were not given just ten commandments. Why do you obey only ten? Are the rest not God''s commandments?
The apostle Paul used an illustration - a beautiful one, imo - in Romans 7. I hope you are not, like
@2ndpillar, and believe Paul to be Satan's minister, in opposition to Christ. Lol.
You likely read it, but, I'll still quote it.
I think it's easy to apply the illustration.
Paul used an example of marriage.
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a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So, then, while her husband is living, she would be called an adulteress if she became another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from his law, so that she is not an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. Romans 7:2-3
What was the point?
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the Law is master over a man as long as he lives. Romans 7:1
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you also were made dead to the Law through the body of the Christ, that you might become another’s, the one who was raised up from the dead... Romans 7:4
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now we have been released from the Law, because we have died to that which restrained us, in order that we might be slaves in a new sense by the spirit and not in the old sense by the written code. Romans 7:6
Can you explain that please?
What law was Paul referring to?
What, then, are we to say? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! Really, I would not have come to know sin had it not been for the Law. For example, I would not have known covetousness if the Law had not said: “You must not covet." Romans 7:7
I think we can both easily answer that. What law is Paul talking about?
There is a lot Paul said in this one Chapter, but I guess, on a forum like this, it's not possible to go through all these texts, in their entirety.
Paul though makes reference to this same Law, throughout his letters.
For example...
What the Law was incapable of doing because it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemning sin in the flesh, Romans 8:3
How beautifully that ties in with Galatians 3:10-14
All those who depend on works of law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not remain in all the things written in the scroll of the Law by doing them.” Moreover, it is evident that by law no one is declared righteous with God, because “the righteous one will live by reason of faith.” Now the Law is not based on faith. Rather, “anyone who does these things will live by means of them.” Christ purchased us, releasing us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: “Accursed is every man hung upon a stake.” This was so that the blessing of Abraham would come to the nations by means of Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith.
He goes on to give another illustration...
Brothers, I speak using a human illustration: Once a covenant is validated, even if only by a man, no one annuls it or attaches additions to it. Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “and to your descendants,” in the sense of many. Rather, it says, “and to your offspring,” in the sense of one, who is Christ. Further, I say this: The Law, which came into being 430 years later, does not invalidate the covenant previously made by God, so as to abolish the promise. For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has kindly given it to Abraham through a promise.
Why, then, the Law? It was added to make transgressions manifest, until the offspring* should arrive. Galatians 3:15-19
Can you explain this?
Was the Law able to make anyone righteous?
Could it save anyone from sin, or was a savior needed.
When that savior arrived, which law is master over us, as long as we live... the one that was weak, or the law of the Christ?
What the Law did was show up weaknesses, didn't it. So this helps us understand Paul's talks to the congregations in Rome, Galatia, Ephesus... etc.
Jesus himself said this...
“You heard that it was said to those of ancient times: ‘You must not murder, but whoever commits a murder will be accountable to the court of justice.’ However, I say to you that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; and whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool!’ will be liable to the fiery Gehenna." Matthew 5:21-22
The law of the Christ says that if in your heart there is anything bad, you have sinned greatly. You don't have to murder to break God's law.
Can we call the law of the Christ, weak?
Is not the law of Christ superior to the Mosaic Law with its Ten Words?
I am under the Law of Christ. How about you?
The scriptures tell us, God said, "This is my beloved son. Listen to him."
Jesus said, "if you love me, keep my commandments."
The scriptures tell us clearly,
All those who depend on works of law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not remain in all the things written in the scroll of the Law by doing them.” Moreover, it is evident that by law no one is declared righteous with God, because “the righteous one will live by reason of faith.”
Now the Law is not based on faith. Rather, “anyone who does these things will live by means of them.” Christ purchased us, releasing us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: “Accursed is every man hung upon a stake.” This was so that the blessing of Abraham would come to the nations by means of Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith.
Galatians 3:10-14
There is quite a lot that can be said on this subject, but space probably won't allow.
I hope we can discuss it though... calmly.